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Tuition, scholarships, aid

The cost of a college education can be expensive, but we think it's a worthwhile one. That's why more than 90 percent of first-year students receive financial aid in the form of scholarships, grants and low-interest loans.

Scholarships and financial aid

The value of a Marquette education

Knowing where your money goes and how the university operates is paramount to understanding the true value of a Marquette education.
Working together with our students, we've compiled some key data and laid it out in an accessible, transparent and easy-to-read guide.

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Mechanical engineering major

From virtually indestructible composite materials to the most fragile fiber optics, mountainous earth-movers to microsurgical robots, today's automobiles and tomorrow's spacecrafts, the diverse work of mechanical engineering majors touches nearly every aspect of life.

Shift gears.

Marquette mechanical engineering majors design and build solar-powered boats and mini-Indy race cars that race against collegiate and corporate competitors throughout the world.

Practice what you learn.

From your first day of classes as a mechanical engineering major, you'll get hands-on experience in our innovation and discovery learning labs. You can also work in our labs for thermal-fluid science, machine design, mechatronics, robotics, manufacturing and automation, material science, and engines.

Make your program unique.

Focus on the science of materials and the design of machine elements and robotics in your elective courses. You can also add a minor in business administration or computer science without putting a strain on your curriculum.

Looking for a "hot" job?

U.S. News & World Report, citing increased industrial reliance upon the multifaceted expertise of mechanical engineers, projects mechanical engineering as one of the nation's "40 hottest jobs."

Be an engineer before you graduate.

Sparks fly.

Starting with a spark of the imagination and ending with the spark plug that fires the engine of a concept car or the sparks of a robotic welder, mechanical engineers design, develop and produce not only the machines that we rely upon, but the machines that make those machines.

Suggested curriculum

Major courses are bolded.

Freshman

Engineering Discovery I & II

Histories of Cultures and Societies Elective

General Physics with Calculus I & II

Rhetoric and Composition I & II

Calculus I & II

Individual and Social Behavior Elective

Sophomore

Dynamics

Electromechanical Engineering

Engineering Orientation

Materials Science

Mechanics of Materials

Statics

Diverse Cultures Elective

Calculus III

General Chemistry I & II

Differential Equations

Junior

Design of Machine Elements

Dynamics of Mechanical Systems

Engineering Statistics

Fundamentals of Heat Transfer

Fluid Mechanics

Manufacturing Engineering

Materials Selection in Mechanical Design

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Thermodynamics I

Philosophy of Human Nature

Theory of Ethics

Senior

Numerical Methods in Mechanical Systems

Engineering Fundamentals

Principles of Design

Senior Design Project

Thermodynamics II

Three Mechanical Engineering Electives

Introduction to Theology

Literature/Performing Arts Elective

Theology Elective

Engineering

You might like the Mechanical engineering major if you

✓ are strong in math and science

✓ are interested in developing things like cars, aircraft, spacecraft, robotics and microrobotics

What can you do with a major in Mechanical engineering?

The mechanical engineering major is excellent preparation for materials engineering, manufacturing, mechanical and energy systems, automobile development, and robotics.